On the other side of the thought process, if you are interested in ways to completely ignore p-values, multivariate stats is a good candidate, and is rather pedagogically well suited, too.
For example, if you have a friend who hates chi-squared tests, instead teach them correspondence analysis.
A year later you can tell them they already know how to do a chi-squared test. To be fair, this latter comment depends a bit on how the library is implemented, and possibly it only does correspondence analysis while not giving you direct access to a way to generate p-values. Some libraries will have a function that you can call that runs simulations and then provides the p-values.
Many of these statistical techniques are an obligation only if you have to sample from a space and you have to somehow determine whether the sample is representative. If you presuppose that your sample is representative, then you move into a parallel world of statistics. An example would be a thermometer. If you sample it at 10:00 00 and again at 10:00 01, certainly you would expect both to be the same? If it's not the same or a close value I would rather say that the thermometer is broken, not that your within group variation for the minute 10:00 is high...
Transcribing solos means, you listen to the music and write it down, bit by bit. Someone's solo = their improvisation. If it's simple/slow enough that it's quicker to learn it by playing along, just do that. (I've never needed to transcribe Louis Armstrong, but have just learnt by playing along with him.) If it's very fast (e.g. Bird, Coltrane) you might need to slow it down to transcribe it. You learn how to transcribe it by doing it, it also trains your ear in recognizing melodies, harmonies, chord voicings, rhythms, forms.
You can buy books of solo transcriptions, but I've found that they're absolutely useless. (and always inaccurate) Maybe it's like reading a book vs. typing it out?! hehe. At first glance I couldn't see how typing a book out would help anything, I mean, it's already written down for you! The main element of learning by working out bit by bit what it is, isn't there. But there are elements in common - it's a little like playing a solo you've written down, and you would absorb the word patterns if you typed a whole novel I guess.
It is sometimes possible to write code to alter your CSVs to retain the strings.
The first thing would be to write them as: entry1,"0123456789",entry2 rather than entry1,0123456789,entry2. This has worked for me in some instances in Excel whereby I have to escape certain things inside a string, but I would not be surprised if Excel still messes this up. For example, giving the triangle exclamation mark box and then helpfully suggest to convert to number.
If you want to go further, you can do something like write a routine that alters the CSV, such as entry1,hospitalString(0123456789),entry2. Sure, there are problems with this too, but Excel can break a lot of things and the above examples I do use in practise (the first example I put the double quotes to escape single quotes in foreign language unicode).
Another thing Excel can do is break your dates, by switching months (usually only for dates < 13th of the month, but often a partial conversion in your data for < 13th and >= 13th) or convert dates to integers.
If I can give my tax money to someone of my choosing, I think it may incentivise people to feel better about where the money is going.
To be clear, not making your tax payments less, but rather choosing where it goes. Of course, if you have a network of nonprofits, this become a bit grey. In the USA I have gotten the impression that people do try to game the idea of nonprofits.
Taxes became a thing precisely because this model failed. The utopia of "common sense and decency" kicking in and ensuring public services are well funded is a false hope and does not work. Simply put, there is always a significant element in the populace that won't pay if they can get away with it, and making taxes optional just gives them an easy way to avoid contributing at all.
This is an interesting topic for me personally, and the way I experience it is like this:
The starting point to a musical scale, classically, is major. Minor is the first alt-culture in key signature.
However, the next step to get a major minor like, is the major 7th, or other half tones, like the 6th. Then, you have the converse, making minors major like, such as the melodic minor scale, or the minor 7th.
Interesting songs, especially in popular culture, make use of this dualistic view. Examples are Wicked Game by Chris Isaak (in a mode, where you don't regress to tonic, giving it an incomplete and spooky theme), Clocks by Coldplay (major chord, minor on 5th rather than major; major on 4th).
I think that somewhere between 2006-2013 was something of a quality age for MacBooks.
The issues that came, like the keyboard, or lack of repair DIY ability coincided with the advent of the iPhone. The question at the moment is whether 2019 and 2020 is a quality age for MacBooks or not, and I don't know the answer to that, but it does appear like 2012 MacBooks are more resilient than 2019 ones.
I think a Frankenstein Dell XPS / MacBook is round about time now from some company X.
I've had an idea for a while, coming from a developing continent, that it would be good to have an alternative for students where they can start working when they are doing an advanced degree, but also simply a place for high school students to acclimate to some of the aspects of the work place.
I know it sounds tangential, but this does resonate with my own roundabout way of going from studies -> work and the gross lack of fundamental science companies in Africa as a whole. I did not have depression, but rather my own cocktail of problems as a student, and a lot of it (at least for me) stemmed from clear dissonance between your current situation and an inability to anticipate a future self that is acceptable to your current self.
With depression, the situation is similar and more importantly, you become more and more subjective and people outside your situation are needed, as probably is medication, to bring you back to personal assonance with what you want in life.
The article doesn't say what the reasons were, so Wang may have had different reasons.
Took me years, to pay off that debt, it felt like literal slavery, since I would just take whatever job that could pay the debt that was offered (I had to decline many jobs because their pay was lower than my debt, meaning taking them I would just stay in debt forever), and then I would stay until I was fired or had to quit.
Even then, those were not "real" jobs according to our government, in my country my "real" job registry, is empty, I never "worked", because I never got hired full-time legally, I couldn't afford to, whatever people offered that the pay was good enough, I would accept, even if the employer was obviously hiring me as "freelancer" just to not pay taxes.
The times I had burned out during this, I had to keep going, travelling for a year? I dunno if I will ever afford that. Making friends? How? When? I am not in a foreign country yet I have two friends at most, and one of them moved to another country and I see him once every 5 years.
So it is not like people have a choice after they went to college, I still feel that going to college was the biggest mistake I ever did on my life, I should never have went, and never took that debt, it is paid now, but I am working with Marketing, instead of working with programming, and have little room for error, no debt, but no surplus either, if something goes wrong with the business I am screwed.
That's too bad.. Sorry to hear about your experience with university and debt. At least, now that it's paid off, you can start building up something, instead of working for nothing.
> to pay off that debt, it felt like literal slavery
This is what I feel is almost criminal about systematically committing university students to years-long debt. Education shouldn't have to be traded for years of someone's life - especially when most of the labor market expects them to have at least a degree.
I think the root of the problem is deeper than education (as a business) though - it's how society is organized. To have a minimum standard of living, one must eat every day and have a place to stay - which is already a kind of debt, a constant need for money. Poor people are essentially enslaved to dead-end jobs, just to be able to survive.
Hopefully, in a sensible/utopian future, we will look back on this social arrangement as barbaric, inhumane and uncivilized. Until then, best of luck navigating, adapting, flourishing despite the setbacks.
> What is needed is removing the source of the problem in the first place...To use medication or drugs is not going to solve your problems,if you continue living such an unnatural lifestyle.
But this ignores that the source of the problem could be brain chemistry itself. Or at least that it is part of the problem. If it were situational only, everyone in the same situation would have the same outcome. But the physical structure and chemical cocktail of each individual brain plays a huge role in how those situations affect each person. The brain is an organ, and just like any other organ, there are situations that cannot be fixed with “lifestyle changes”. Medication should not just be hand waved away.
What stops me from encrypting things?